Mr. Keating and his real-life counterparts now dominate secondary and post secondary education. That’s a problem.
Education
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The charter school model has not-so-hidden dangers for Catholic education
Oklahoma has approved public funding for what would be the nation’s first Catholic charter school. What could be the trade-offs in terms of autonomy and religious freedom?
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Does prayer belong in a public school?
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Linda K. Wertheimer about her recent article about renewed efforts in some parts of the country to get prayer back into public schools.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Is ChatGPT here to stay in higher education? Not if teachers resist it.
Even writing instructors are being pressured to use ChatGPT, and to allow their students to use it. But if allow such shortcuts in the creative process, we endanger our students’ psychological development.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Sex ed has become another culture war issue for Catholics. Fertility ed might be the answer.
Parents should take a lead in giving their children an accurate picture about sex and reproduction, but too many young adults never learn the basics about fertility.
Posted inFaith, News
The legal battle over plans for the first Catholic charter school is just heating up
The key question in this case is not whether a charter would help or harm local education, but whether explicitly religious instruction at charter schools is constitutional.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
It’s for our common good: School meals should be free for all students
Catholics should support universal free school meals both because it aids the poor and because it promotes the common good.
Posted inFaith, News
‘I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since’: Priest who buried 8 children reflects on 10th anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting
Reflecting on the horror and the events of the intervening years, Msgr. Weiss said: “Gratitude sustains me. I pray a lot and try to keep myself in the Lord’s hands.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Prayer and processing: How to talk to our students about mass shootings
What can the 21st-century educator offer his or her students in the wake of all the violence, anger and hate they see in the media?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The Catholic Church has been banning books for centuries. Here’s what it can teach us about censorship today.
Groups calling for the removal of books from libraries and school curricula today would do well to consider the Catholic Church’s experiences with attempting to censor authors.